(Reuters) – Meta Platforms plans to release the latest version of its large language model later this month, after delaying it at least twice, the Information reported on Friday, as the Facebook owner scrambles to lead in the AI race. Meta, however, could push back the release of Llama 4 again, the report said, citing…
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday extended the deadline for the sale of ByteDance’s U.S. assets of short video app TikTok, saying “tremendous progress” had been made but more work was needed to secure approvals. Trump added that he looked forward to working with TikTok and China to close the deal, and…
By Georgina McCartney HOUSTON (Reuters) – U.S. oilfield service firms are bracing for a hit as President Donald Trump’s tariffs throw supply chains into disarray and tumbling oil prices set the stage for a drop in drilling activity, analysts and financial firms said on Friday. Financial services firm Morningstar lowered its fair value estimates for…
(Reuters) – Goldman Sachs on Wednesday raised its end-2025 gold price forecast to $3,300 per ounce from $3,100, citing stronger-than-expected ETF inflows and sustained central bank demand. Goldman Sachs also raised its forecast range to $3,250-$3,520 from $3,100-$3,300 earlier, according to its research note. The investment bank expects large Asian central banks to continue their…
By Carolina Mandl NEW YORK (Reuters) -Hedge funds are increasingly betting against stocks, with Nvidia, Advanced Micro Devices and Tesla as their top three shorts placed on Wednesday, a Morgan Stanley note showed on Thursday. Wednesday was the third largest day of single stock selling by hedge funds this year, according to the bank’s institutional…
By Neil J Kanatt, Anuja Bharat Mistry (Reuters) -Lululemon Athletica forecast annual revenue and profit below estimates on Thursday as the lack of consumer appeal for its newer styles has been pushing customers to look for products from competitors such as Alo Yoga and Vuori. The company’s shares fell about 11% in extended trading. Lululemon’s…
By Jamie McGeever ORLANDO, Florida (Reuters) – TRADING DAY Making sense of the forces driving global markets By Jamie McGeever, Markets Columnist Trump drives global trade war up a gear Investors went on the defensive Thursday, reducing exposure to risky assets like stocks after U.S. President Donald Trumpescalated the global trade wars with his plans…
By Canan Sevgili and Ezgi Erkoyun ISTANBUL (Reuters) – Turkish stocks were set for their worst week since the aftermath of 2008’s Lehman Brothers collapse on Friday as concerns about this week’s detention of President Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival refused to subside. The lira was set for a 4% weekly slump despite aggressive action…
(Reuters) -Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang said on Wednesday that orders for some 3.6 million of its flagship “Blackwell” chips from four top cloud service providers “under represented” demand, since they did not include orders from key customer Meta. Facebook-owner Meta Platforms is among the largest buyers of Nvidia chips and Mark Zuckerberg, CEO of the…
By Lisa Baertlein, Karl Plume and Timothy Gardner LOS ANGELES/CARLSBAD, Calififornia (Reuters) -President Donald Trump’s plan to revive U.S. shipbuilding using massive fees on China-linked ship visits to American ports is causing U.S. coal inventories to swell and stoking uncertainty in the embattled agriculture market, as exporters struggle to find ships to send goods abroad….
